Travel & Yoga Blog of an Indian Yoga Teacher
You know it’s going to be an interesting Yoga class when the teacher begins with describing her experience of dissecting cadavers – the sheer awe it evoked, the bright yellow of the fascia, and the certainty it brought: that our...
While flamenco is embedded in Andalusian folk culture, not many know that its origin is traced to gypsies from India who wandered into Spain a few centuries ago. This history finds a prominent mention in the Museum of Sacromonte (Museo Cuevas...
Mid-July this year I began my 6-week Spain trip, my first stop being the Barcelona Yoga Conference as one of its official bloggers. A week full of various interpretations of Yoga, great live music, eating my weight in vegan gelato,...
At the Bali Spirit Festival this year I had the honour of meeting Mark Whitwell, author of Yoga of Heart, and a travelling Yoga teacher spreading the rare message of claiming your own direct intimacy with life and not pedestalizing anyone....
Yoga teacher, dancer, actress, model, oenophilist, author, peace activist, revolutionary and a wonderfully antique little girl who (in her own words) ‘refuses to grow up’. Just some of the hats the 98-year-young Tao Porchon-Lynch has juggled in her 3-inch high...
‘Grandmothers are just antique little girls’ said a sign that hung in a friend’s home. And another said ‘Grandmothers are allowed to be eccentric. It’s in their contract.’ I would imagine both of these hold true, in so many...
How many women does it take to start an all-women travel agency and a women’s welfare network for women in distress, write tirelessly on social and environmental issues, win a bronze at the National Ice Hockey Championship, and keep training...
What would you say about a modern-day school that churns out self-empowered, multi-dimensional and sensitive individuals who give back to society? Where progress is led by example and not just exams, where character is as important as curriculum and compassion...
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